Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video The thing about watching football that kicks off at 1am is that when 1am comes around you’ve probably had a few beers, and so the next day it’s a bit more difficult to remember the game in the kind of detail you normally do. … The post Arse...

Premier League action with a novelty 3pm kickoff today as we face Swansea at home. Except it’s not 3pm here, it’ll be some time after midnight, but given that I didn’t wake up until 1pm today I suspect I might be able to stay up for this one. I’m finding it quite hard to stay … The post Last we...

I am most pleased, through having a certain status, to become friends with Sir Chips Keswick. He wrote to me yesterday evening regarding his performance at Arsenal’s AGM. He did not specify whether or not his missive could be published, so I shall go out on a limb and do so below. Dear Gent, What...

Hello everyone from Melbourne, Australia. I’m still trying to get my head around time zones and the like, and at the time of writing here it’s around 7.30am and I’ve actually slept. This is good, because I did not sleep at all during the journey. Not during the 7 hour flight from Dublin to Abu …...

As I strolled towards Finsbury Park on Tuesday night, chants of “Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!” still wafting through the air, I overheard two boys chatting. “That was the best 90 minutes of my life, ” the little one, no older than six, said to the bigger one. “You mean 120 minutes, ” was the canny reply....

One of the more interesting facets of Arsenal’s season so far is that they have operated with two distinct starting XIs. With participation in the Europa League and the Carabao Cup this autumn, pretty much every other week, the Gunners’ second string is getting 90 minutes of competitive football...

Match report – Player ratings – Video It would be reasonable to say that for 85 minutes the performance against Norwich was not one that would live long in the memory. It wasn’t even bad enough to be distinctive – like that time I ordered a burger in a bar and they literally just gave … The pos...

We play our second game in 48 hours this evening with a Carabao Cup tie against Norwich City. Having just played on Sunday, Arsene Wenger will be rotating the shite out of his squad for this one I reckon, and I suspect we won’t see anyone who started at Goodison Park starting tonight. As effectiv...

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. On this week’s show enjoy the 5-2 demolition of Everton and the successful deployment of the AOL front three, Alexis, Ozil and Lacazette. They dialed-up with goals and assists, we look at the overall p...

Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video For the first time this season Arsene Wenger selected/was able to select a front three of Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil and Alexandre Lacazette. The result was a goal for each, assists for the two ‘contract rebels’, and perhaps the most fluid at...